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Time Bandits
Starring: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm Director: Terry Gilliam Average Rating: 
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2008-11-21Kind of like the "Clash of the Titans" mythology movie but with midgets, time travel and much more humor.
2008-09-16My uncle first introduced this movie to me a long time ago! Afterwards I thought it was wierd for a couple of reasons. The first was that it was directed by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python and the other was the kooky plot and charachters. But they were reasons to make me watch the movie. I fell in love with it after a couple of viewings. I have to praise Terry Gilliam for directing Heath Ledger in his last role after The Dark Knight. The critereon DVD is still good by the way. dispite the non-anamorphic transfer, this is still a good DVD. critereon does a fantastic job with their titles and this one is no disappointment. Hey, the movie was released in 1981 and you gotta give it that. I did want to get the Special Edition from Anchor Bay, but the critereon version spotted my eyes first and the rest is history. I have the critereon DVD of Time Bandits! And the day after tommorrow...... THE WORLD!!! AHAHAHA!!!
2008-08-28I had a strong reaction to people's negative comments about this movie... I must admit, when I saw the movie in the theater, I can remember it being much more fast-paced then when I saw it for the second time on dvd in the 2000s...I also remember it being funnier...And I suppose the special effects are not up to modern standards... But to call Time Bandits "dated, dumb, and dull," as one reviewer wrote, is in my oppinion a great injustice to a great movie.
People have to realize- Time Bandits is NOT truely a comedy or even a fantasy/sci fi movie- and those elements of comedy and sci fi/fantasy that exist in the movie are incidental to its true purpose: being a social/philisophical commentary on the evils/perversions that technology, when left unchecked, can impose on us (or more accurately: how we impose technology on ourselves and others, especially our children), and how people can lose their souls when they love and desire things, money, and power instead of people/living things, morals, and love- which are the truely important things in life. And concidering how more than ever before (because there is more technology and things avaliable to us than ever before), almost all of we Americans are about our things, adquiring more things, and having more than the Joneses next door, I think Time Bandits is MUCH more relevent, and has much more to teach us NOW, than when it came out (1981).
Since my second viewing of Time Bandits, I have watched the movie more times, and it grows on me more every time. I love the points Time Bandits subtly makes, as well as the thoughts, imagination, ideas, ideals, and feelings of adventure it provokes... I love the general feel that the movie has. Time Bandits is a great movie, and is concidered to be a cult-classic by many- but if you are only into the all-too common modern mindless cookie-cutter films, which lack any real deepness, orginality or imagination, you might want to rent this one first before purchasing it.
2008-07-19Terry Gilliam's works are always magically a bit odd and off center, and keep the viewer mystified and off balance, and in the end...it all works out. Somehow. The relationship between Sean Connery's King Agamemnon and the protaganist (Kevin) is sweet and not-quite-happy-ending enough for me, but the film is a masterpeice in the fantasy genre.
2008-07-13My husband, 11 year old daughter, and I watched TIME BANDITS the other evening. My husband remembered it from his college days as being extremly funny, and thought we would all enjoy it. The whole family loves Brittish comedy, and we were really looking forward to this. Unfortunately, TIME BANDITS has not held up well over the years. We all sat there a bit glassy-eyed and slack-jawed, waiting for the laughs.
For some reason that I cannot quite my finger on, this film just isnt funny anymore (if it ever was). With supposedly Monty Python-esque humor, I would have thought that TIME BANDITS would have become a sort of timeless classic similiar to the Monty Python films. But what works for Monty Python, what makes THEM classic, doesnt work or is severley lacking in TIME BANDITS.
The plot is old, predictable, disjointed, and, quite frankly, boring. The pace is plodding and tedious. The special effects, while they may possably have been innovative in 1981, look cheap and cheesy. The acting, from this "all star" cast is mostly dreadful, although John Cleese and Sean Connery both deliver their typical fine performences. The ending is bizarre, and while I understand what the director was going for, fails miserably. And, as others have stated over and over, the quality of the disk transfer is just horrible - dark, jumpy, and full of artifacts.
I was temped to give this a two-star rating based solely on the performences John Cleese and Sean Connery, but why bother? You can see both of them in much better films. TIME BANDITS is dated, dumb, and dull. NOT recomendED.
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